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 BEGINNING VISUAL C#® 2012 PROGRAMMING

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxi

 PART I THE C# LANGUAGE

CHAPTER 1 Introducing C# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
CHAPTER 2 Writing a C# Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
CHAPTER 3 Variables and Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
CHAPTER 4 Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
CHAPTER 5 More About Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
CHAPTER 6 Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
CHAPTER 7 Debugging and Error Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
CHAPTER 8 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
CHAPTER 9 Defining Classes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177
CHAPTER 10 Defining Class Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
CHAPTER 11 Collections, Comparisons, and Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
CHAPTER 12 Generics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
CHAPTER 13 Additional OOP Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
CHAPTER 14 C# Language Enhancements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339

 PART II WINDOWS PROGRAMMING

CHAPTER 15 Basic Desktop Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 381
CHAPTER 16 Advanced Desktop Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 425
CHAPTER 17 Windows Store Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
CHAPTER 18 Deploying Desktop Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513

 PART III WEB PROGRAMMING

CHAPTER 19 ASP.NET Web Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
CHAPTER 20 Deploying Web Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591

Continued

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  PART IV DATA ACCESS
CHAPTER 21 File System Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
CHAPTER 22 XML. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
CHAPTER 23 Introduction to LINQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
CHAPTER 24 Applying LINQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699

 PART V ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES

CHAPTER 25 Windows Communication Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 727
CHAPTER 26 Windows Workflow Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 759
APPENDIX A Exercise Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 779

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 827

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 BEGINNING

Visual C#® 2012 Programming

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 BEGINNING

Visual C#® 2012 Programming

Karli Watson
Jacob Vibe Hammer
John D. Reid
Morgan Skinner
Daniel Kemper
Christian Nagel

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 for donna

— Karli Watson

Love is as strong as death;

Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it.

From the inside of my Mum’s hymnbook, of which I

now have the privilege of being the custodian.

— Morgan Skinner

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 ABOUT THE AUTHORS

KARLI WATSON is an IT contractor and author currently working in London in the fi nancial sector. For the
most part, he immerses himself in .NET (in particular C#) and has written numerous books in the field for
several publishers. He specializes in communicating complex ideas in a way that is accessible to anyone with
a passion to learn, and spends much of his time playing with new technology to fi nd new things to teach
people about.
During those (seemingly few) times where he isn’t doing the above, Karli will probably be wishing he was
hurtling down a mountain on a snowboard. Or possibly trying to get his novel published. Either way, you’ll
know him by his brightly colored clothes. You can also fi nd him tweeting online as @karlequin, and maybe
one day he’ll get round to making himself a website.

JACOB VIBE HAMMER is a software architect and developer at Kamstrup, where he is helping the company
develop world class Smart Grid solutions for large public utilities. He started programming just about the
time when he was able to spell the word “BASIC” — which, incidentally, is the fi rst programming language
he ever used. Since then, he has worked with numerous programming languages and solution architectures;
however, since the turn of the century, he has worked primarily with the .NET platform. Today, his pro-
gramming time is spent working primarily with C# and WPF, as well as toying with NoSQL databases.
A Danish citizen, Jacob lives in Aarhus, Denmark, with his wife and son.

JON D. REID is the Director of Software Technology for IFS Metrix Service Management (www.IFSWORLD
.com/Metrix). He has coauthored a number of .NET books, including Beginning Visual C# 2010, Fast
Track C#, Pro Visual Studio .NET, and many others.

MORGAN SKINNER started messing with computers in 1980 when he fi rst started programming at school in
assembly language. Since then he’s used many languages commercially, including Pascal, Modula-2, VAX
Macro assembly language, Smalltalk, PowerBuilder, C, C++ and C# (to name the more well-known ones). He
joined Microsoft in 2001 after getting his hands on .NET for the fi rst time, and he spent nearly 10 years there
as an Application Development Consultant, working with some of the smallest — and largest — companies in
the UK. Morgan left Microsoft in 2011 and is now an independent contractor working on bespoke systems;
see www.morganskinner.com for more details.

DANIEL KEMPER is a software architect with a couple of Microsoft certifications. He specializes in rich
Internet application, desktop client, and reporting technologies.

CHRISTIAN NAGEL is a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP, an associate of thinktecture, and
founder of CN innovation. A software architect and developer, he offers training and consulting on how to
develop solutions using the Microsoft platform. He draws on more than 25 years of software development
experience. Christian started his computing career with PDP 11 and VAX/VMS systems, covering a variety
of languages and platforms. Since 2000, when .NET was just a technology preview, he has been working
with various .NET technologies to build .NET solutions. Currently, he mainly coaches the development of
Windows 8 apps accessing Windows Azure services. With his profound knowledge of Microsoft technologies,
he has written numerous books and is certified as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and Professional Developer.
Christian speaks at international conferences such as TechEd, Basta!, and TechDays, and he founded INETA
Europe to support .NET user groups. You can contact Christian via his websites, www.cninnovation.com
and www.thinktecture.com. You can also follow his tweets at @christiannagel.

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 ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITORS

DOUG HOLLAND is an architect with Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism team and works with
Microsoft’s strategic ISV partners to help bring new and exciting experiences to consumers on Windows 8
and Windows Phone 8.

RICHARD HOPTON has been developing business software systems for 10 years, currently focusing on
designing and building highly scalable REST-based API solutions using C# for a digital media company in
London, UK. Richard has been published in Microsoft’s monthly developer newsletter, MSDN Flash, and
has spoken at numerous developer community events throughout the UK.

MARCEL MEIJER has lived in the world of information and communications technologies for more than
15 years. Currently, he is mainly concerned with Windows Azure, the cloud, C#, software development, and
architecture. He works as a senior architect at VX Company. In his spare time, he is a board member of the
SDN (Software Development Network; www.sdn.nl). At SDN, he is responsible for arranging speakers for
the SDN Events (SDE); selecting content for SDN Conferences; and arranging and editing content for SDN
Magazine.

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 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THANKS ONCE AGAIN TO EVERYONE AT WILEY for help, encouragement, and understanding. Striking the
balance between getting the book done quickly and ensuring it’s accurate in the face of numerous product
and naming changes is never easy, but between us I think we’ve just about managed it. Special thanks to
Patrick Meader for remaining (mostly) calm throughout the project — or at least calmer than me… As ever,
no acknowledgements would be complete without thanks to my wife, donna, who very nearly succeeds in
keeping me sane during writing periods. And, of course, thanks to you for (hopefully) buying this book, and
the very best of luck in your coding adventures!

— Karli Watson

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MOSLEM RULE IN SPAIN, TOGETHER
WITH A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE CONSTRUCTION, THE
ARCHITECTURE, AND THE DECORATION OF THE MOORISH
PALACE, WITH 460 ILLUSTRATIONS. DEDICATED BY SPECIAL
PERMISSION TO H.I.M. THE EMPRESS EUGÉNIE

T HIS volume is the third and abridged edition of a work which the author
was inspired to undertake by the surpassing loveliness of the Alhambra,
and by his disappointment in the discovery that no such thing as an even
moderately adequate illustrated souvenir of “this glorious sanctuary of Spain”
was obtainable. Keenly conscious of the want himself, he essayed to supply
it, and the result is a volume that has been acclaimed with enthusiasm alike
by critics, artists, architects, and archæologists.
In his preface to the first edition, Mr. Calvert wrote: “The Alhambra may
be likened to an exquisite opera which can only be appreciated to the full
when one is under the spell of its magic influence. But as the witchery of an
inspired score can be recalled by the sound of an air whistled in the street, so
—it is my hope—the pale ghost of the Moorish fairy-land may live again in
the memories of travellers through the medium of this pictorial epitome.”

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E L GR E C O
 A BIOGRAPHY AND APPRECIATION. ILLUSTRATED BY
REPRODUCTIONS OF OVER 140 OF HIS PICTURES

I N a Series such as this, which aims at presenting every aspect of Spain’s

eminence in art and in her artists, the work of Domenico Theotocópuli
must be allotted a volume to itself. “El Greco,” as he is called, who reflects
the impulse, and has been said to constitute the supreme glory of the Venetian
era, was a Greek by repute, a Venetian by training, and a Toledan by
adoption. His pictures in the Prado are still catalogued among those of the
Italian School, but foreigner as he was, in his heart he was more Spanish than
the Spaniards.
El Greco is typically, passionately, extravagantly Spanish, and with his
advent, Spanish painting laid aside every trace of Provincialism, and stepped
forth to compel the interest of the world. Neglected for many centuries, and
still often misjudged, his place in art is an assured one. It is impossible to
present him as a colourist in a work of this nature, but the author has got
together reproductions of no fewer than 140 of his pictures—a greater
number than has ever before been published of El Greco’s works.

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V E L A Z QU E Z
A BIOGRAPHY AND APPRECIATION. ILLUSTRATED WITH 142
REPRODUCTIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS OF HIS MOST
CELEBRATED PICTURES

D IEGO RODRIGUEZ DE SILVA Y VELAZQUEZ—“our Velazquez,” as

Palomino proudly styles him—has been made the subject of innumerable
books in every European language, yet the Editor of this Spanish Series
feels that it would not be complete without the inclusion of yet another
contribution to the broad gallery of Velazquez literature.
The great Velazquez, the eagle in art—subtle, simple, incomparable—the
supreme painter, is still a guiding influence of the art of to-day. This greatest
of Spanish artists, a master not only in portrait painting, but in character and
animal studies, in landscapes and historical subjects, impressed the grandeur
of his superb personality upon all his work. Spain, it has been said, the
country whose art was largely borrowed, produced Velazquez, and through
him Spanish art became the light of a new artistic life.
The author cannot boast that he has new data to offer, but he has put
forward his conclusions with modesty; he has reproduced a great deal that is
most representative of the artist’s work; and he has endeavoured to keep
always in view his object to present a concise, accurate, and readable life of
Velazquez.

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R OYA L PA L A C E S OF S PA IN
A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE SEVEN
PRINCIPAL PALACES OF THE SPANISH KINGS. PROFUSELY
ILLUSTRATED

S PAIN is beyond question the richest country in the world in the number of
its Royal Residences, and while few are without artistic importance, all
are rich in historical memories. Thus, from the Alcazar at Seville, which
is principally associated with Pedro the Cruel, to the Retiro, built to divert the
attention of Philip IV. from his country’s decay; from the Escorial, in which
the gloomy mind of Philip II. is perpetuated in stone, to La Granja, which
speaks of the anguish and humiliation of Christina before Sergeant Garcia
and his rude soldiery; from Aranjuéz to Rio Frio, and from El Pardo,
darkened by the agony of a good king, to Miramar, to which a widowed
Queen retired to mourn: all the history of Spain, from the splendid days of
Charles V. to the present time, is crystallised in the Palaces that constitute the
patrimony of the Crown.
The Royal Palaces of Spain are open to visitors at stated times, and it is
hoped that this volume, with its wealth of illustrations, will serve the visitor
both as a guide and a souvenir.

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 VA L L A D OL ID , OV IE D O,
S E GOV IA , Z A MOR A , AV IL A
A N D Z A R A GOZ A
A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT, WITH 390
ILLUSTRATIONS

T HE glory of Valladolid has departed, but the skeleton remains, and

attached to its ancient stones are the memories that Philip II. was born
here, that here Cervantes lived, and Christopher Columbus died. In this
one-time capital of Spain, in the Plaza Mayor, the fires of the Great
Inquisition were first lighted, and here Charles V. laid the foundation of the
Royal Armoury, which was afterwards transferred to Madrid.
More than seven hundred years have passed since Oviedo was the proud
capital of the Kingdoms of Las Asturias, Leon, and Castile. Segovia, though
no longer great, has still all the appurtenances of greatness, and with her
granite massiveness and austerity, she remains an aristocrat even among the
aristocracy of Spanish cities. Zamora, which has a history dating from time
almost without date, was the key of Leon and the centre of the endless wars
between the Moors and the Christians, which raged round it from the eighth
to the eleventh centuries.
In this volume the author has striven to re-create the ancient greatness of
these six cities, and has preserved their memories in a wealth of excellent and
interesting illustrations.

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L E ON , B U R GOS A N D
S A L A MA N C A
A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT, WITH 462
ILLUSTRATIONS
I N Leon, once the capital of the second kingdom in Spain; in Burgos, which
boasts one of the most magnificent cathedrals in Spain, and the
custodianship of the bones of the Cid; and in Salamanca, with its
university, which is one of the oldest in Europe, the author has selected three
of the most interesting relics of ancient grandeur in this country of departed
greatness.
Leon to-day is nothing but a large agricultural village, torpid, silent,
dilapidated; Burgos, which still retains traces of the Gotho-Castilian
character, is a gloomy and depleting capital; and Salamanca is a city of
magnificent buildings, a broken hulk, spent by the storms that from time to
time have devastated her.
Yet apart from the historical interest possessed by these cities, they still
make an irresistible appeal to the artist and the antiquary. They are content
with their stories of old-time greatness and their cathedrals, and these ancient
architectural splendours, undisturbed by the touch of a modernising and
renovating spirit, continue to attract the visitor.

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MA D R ID
A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE SPANISH
CAPITAL, WITH 450 ILLUSTRATIONS

M ADRID is at once one of the most interesting and most maligned cities
in Europe. It stands at an elevation of 2,500 feet above the sea level, in
the centre of an arid, treeless, waterless, and wind-blown plain; but
whatever may be thought of the wisdom of selecting a capital in such a
situation, one cannot but admire the uniqueness of its position, and the
magnificence of its buildings, and one is forced to admit that, having fairly
entered the path of progress, Madrid bids fair to become one of the
handsomest and most prosperous of European cities.
The splendid promenades, the handsome buildings, and the spacious
theatres combine to make Madrid one of the first cities of the world, and the
author has endeavoured with the aid of the camera, to place every feature and
aspect of the Spanish metropolis before the reader. Some of the illustrations
reproduced here have been made familiar to the English public by reason of
the interesting and stirring events connected with the Spanish Royal
Marriage, but the greater number were either taken by the author, or are the
work of photographers specially employed to obtain new views for the
purpose of this volume.

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GOYA
A BIOGRAPHY AND APPRECIATION. ILLUSTRATED BY
REPRODUCTIONS OF 600 OF HIS PICTURES

T HE last of the old masters and the first of the moderns, as he has been
called, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes is not so familiarised to
English readers as his genius deserves. He was born at a time when the
tradition of Velazquez was fading, and the condition of Spanish painting was
debased almost beyond hope of salvation; he broke through the academic
tradition of imitation; “he, next to Velazquez, is to be accounted as the man
whom the Impressionists of our time have to thank for their most definite
stimulus, their most immediate inspiration.”
The genius of Goya was a robust, imperious, and fulminating genius; his
iron temperament was passionate, dramatic, and revolutionary; he painted a
picture as he would have fought a battle. He was an athletic, warlike, and
indefatigable painter; a naturalist like Velazquez; fantastic like Hogarth;
eccentric like Rembrandt; the last flame-coloured flash of Spanish genius.
It is impossible to reproduce his colouring; but in the reproductions of his
works the author has endeavoured to convey to the reader some idea of
Goya’s boldness of style, his mastery of frightful shadows and mysterious
lights, and his genius for expressing all terrible emotions.

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 C OR D OVA
A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE ANCIENT
CITY WHICH THE CARTHAGINIANS STYLED THE “GEM OF THE
SOUTH,” WITH 160 ILLUSTRATIONS

G AY-LOOKING, vivacious in its beauty, silent, ill-provided, depopulated,

Cordova was once the pearl of the West, the city of cities, Cordova of the
thirty suburbs and three thousand mosques; to-day she is no more than
an overgrown village, but she still remains the most Oriental town in Spain.
Cordova, once the centre of European civilisation, under the Moors the
Athens of the West, the successful rival of Baghdad and Damascus, the seat
of learning and the repository of the arts, has shrunk to the proportions of a
third-rate provincial town; but the artist, the antiquary and the lover of the
beautiful, will still find in its streets and squares and patios a mysterious spell
that cannot be resisted.

BY ALBERT F. CALVERT

L IF E OF C E RVA N T E S
A NEW LIFE OF THE GREAT SPANISH AUTHOR TO
COMMEMORATE THE TERCENTENARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF
“DON QUIXOTE,” WITH NUMEROUS PORTRAITS AND
REPRODUCTIONS FROM EARLY EDITIONS OF “DON QUIXOTE”
Size Crown 8vo. 150 pp. Price 3/6 net
PRESS NOTICES
“A popular and accessible account of the career of Cervantes.”—Daily
Chronicle.
“A very readable and pleasant account of one of the great writers of all
time.”—Morning Leader.
“Mr. Calvert is entitled to the gratitude of book-lovers for his
industrious devotion at one of our greatest literary shrines.”—Birmingham
Post.
 “It is made trebly interesting by the very complete set of Cervantes’
portraits it contains, and by the inclusion of a valuable bibliography.”—Black
and White.
“We recommend the book to all those to whom Cervantes is more than a
mere name.”—Westminster Gazette.
“A most interesting résumé of all facts up to the present time known.”—El
Nervion de Bilbao, Spain.
“The most notable work dedicated to the immortal author of Don Quixote
that has been published in England.”—El Graduador, Spain.
“Although the book is written in English no Spaniard could have written it
with more conscientiousness and enthusiasm.”—El Defensor de Granada,
Spain.

BY ALBERT F. CALVERT

T HE A L HA MB R A
OF GRANADA, BEING A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MOSLEM RULE
IN SPAIN FROM THE REIGN OF MOHAMMED THE FIRST TO THE
FINAL EXPULSION OF THE MOORS, TOGETHER WITH A
PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE CONSTRUCTION, THE
ARCHITECTURE AND THE DECORATION OF THE MOORISH
PALACE, WITH 80 COLOURED PLATES AND NEARLY 300 BLACK
AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS (NEW EDITION). DEDICATED BY
PERMISSION TO H.M. KING ALFONSO XIII.
Size 10 x 7-1/2. Price £2 2s. net
PRESS NOTICES
“It is hardly too much to say that this is one of the most magnificent books
ever issued from the English Press.”—Building World.
“One is really puzzled where to begin and when to stop in praising the
illustrations.”—Bookseller.
“The most complete record of this wonder of architecture which has ever
been contemplated, much less attempted.”—British Architect.
“A treasure to the student of decorative art.”—Morning Advertiser.
 “Mr. Calvert has given us a Book Beautiful.”—Western Daily Press.
“It is the last word on the subject, no praise is too high.”—Nottingham
Express.
“May be counted among the more important art books which have been
published during recent years.”—The Globe.
“Has a pride of place that is all its own among the books of the month.”—
Review of Reviews.
“Has in many respects surpassed any books on the Alhambra which up to
the present have appeared in our own country or abroad.”—El Graduador,
Spain.
“It is one of the most beautiful books of modern times.”—Ely Gazette.
“One of the most artistic productions of the year.”—Publishers’ Circular.
“The most beautiful book on the Alhambra issued in England.”—Sphere.
“The standard work on a splendid subject.”—Daily Telegraph.
“A remarkable masterpiece of book production.”—Eastern Daily Press.
“A perfect treasure of beauty and delight.”—Keighley News.
“A magnificent work.”—Melbourne Age, Australia.
“Immense collection of fine plates.”—The Times.
“A standard work, the compilation of which would credit a life’s
labour.”—Hull Daily Mail.

BY ALBERT F. CALVERT

MOOR IS H R E MA IN S IN
S PA IN
BEING A BRIEF RECORD OF THE ARABIAN CONQUEST AND
OCCUPATION OF THE PENINSULA, WITH A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT
OF THE MOHAMMEDAN ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATION IN
THE CITIES OF CORDOVA, SEVILLE AND TOLEDO, WITH MANY
COLOURED PLATES, AND OVER 400 BLACK AND WHITE
ILLUSTRATIONS, DIAGRAMS, ETC., DEDICATED BY PERMISSION
TO H.M. KING ALFONSO XIII.
Crown 4to. (7-1/2 x 10 ins.) Price £2 2s. net
PRESS NOTICES
“The making of this book must surely have been a veritable labour of
love; and love’s labour has certainly not been lost.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“The best age of Moorish architecture in Spain is shown with remarkable
vividness and vitality.”—The Scotsman.
“A most gorgeous book.... We cheerfully admit Mr. Calvert into the
ranks of those whom posterity will applaud for delightful yet unprofitable
work.”—Outlook.
“A large and sumptuous volume.”—Tribune.
“The illustrations are simply marvels of reproduction.”—Dundee
Advertiser.
“One of the books to which a simple literary review cannot pretend to do
justice.”—Spectator.
“A special feature of a work of peculiar interest and value are the
illustrations.”—Newcastle Chronicle.
“The illustrations are given with a minuteness and faithfulness of detail,
and colour, which will be particularly appreciated and acknowledged by
those who are most acquainted with the subject themselves.”—Liverpool
Post.
“It is impossible to praise too highly the care with which the illustrations
have been prepared.”—Birmingham Daily Post.
“It is illustrated with so lavish a richness of colour that to turn its pages
gives one at first almost the same impression of splendour as one receives in
wandering from hall to hall of the Alcazar of Seville; and this is probably the
highest compliment we could pay to the book or its author.”—Academy.
“It is certainly one of the most interesting books of the year.”—Crown.
“The occasional delicacy of design and harmony of colour can scarcely be
surpassed ... a valuable and profusely illustrated volume.”—Guardian.
“An excellent piece of work.”—The Times.
“Mr. Calvert has performed a useful work.”—Daily Telegraph.
“A truly sumptuous volume.”—The Speaker.
 “Mr. Calvert has given a very complete account of the evolution of
Moresco art.”—The Connoisseur.
 FOOTNOTES:
[A] He is reckoned as Mohammed VI. by the writers who deny the title of Sultan
to the usurper of Mohammed V.’s throne.
[B] Known as Mohammed X.
[C] I adopt Mr. U. R. Burke’s statement of the relationship between Abu-l-Hassan,
Zoraya, and Boabdil. (Burke, “History of Spain,” II. p. 98.)
[D] Here was lodged the cavalry of the Moorish Sultans.
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